Up Coming

In March 2018 SITE Gallery Houston is excited to host a perfomance and lecture by Anna Friz. More information on the artist can be found here.

Anna Friz is a Canadian sound and media artist and media studies scholar. Since 1998 Anna has predominantly created self-reflexive radio for broadcast, installation or performance, where radio is the source, subject, and medium of the work. Her compositions for theatre, dance, film, installation, and solo performance reflect upon public media culture, environment and infrastructure (human and extra-human, acoustic, and electro-magnetic), time perception, and speculative fiction.

In the autumn of 2015 she joined the Film and Digital Media department at University of California Santa Cruz as Assistant Professor of Sound. She recently completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the department of Sound (2011-2013), funded by the Fonds de recherche Québec – société et culture (FRQ). She earned her Ph.D. in the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture from York University, Toronto in 2011; her dissertation is entitled “The Radio of the Future Redux: Rethinking Transmission Through Experiments in Radio Art.”

Her radio art/works have been commissioned by national public radio in Canada, Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Danmark, Spain, and Mexico, and heard on the airwaves of more than 25 countries. In 2011 she was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore award (Toronto) and the Betty Mitchell award (Calgary) for excellence in composition and sound design for theatre, and received 2nd place in the Prix Palma Ars Acoustica 2014. Anna is an itinerant member of the Toronto-based Public Studio collective, which together won the 2014 competition to create a new permanent sound installation in the Lee Lifeson Arts Park in North York, Toronto.